M. Night’s Films hitting iTunes

Paul Martin

12 years ago

Apple, soon to officially announce its strategy to deliver movies through the iTunes Music Store (which according to one source is going to be rebranded),and its movie studio partners are working on creating a large library of hits for download within the first six months of making full length films available.

Grapevine time: executives at Disney’s Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group, a collection of Disney’s main movie studios, have been getting their subsidiary companies to prepare most of their hit motion pictures for digital delivery.

These are just some of the movies to expect within the first six months to a year.

Apart from Disney and Pixar, Lion’s Gate Entertainment will make the following, mostly horror, movies available: American Psycho, Dogma, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Pi, Requiem for a Dream, Open Water, Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, The Punisher, Fahrenheit 9/11, Crash, Alone in the Dark, Hostel, Saw 1 and 2.

Not all of the above will be available for download immediately but instead see a slow roll out over the first six months during which they will be joined by ever newer releases. Pricing is expected to be from$9.99 to $14.99. In this writer’s opinion customers might find those prices too dear. Could a subscription model work better?